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Intro to Geography and The World 2
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1. a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur
Image: Ring of Fire

2. a connection between two landmasses, especially a prehistoric one that allowed humans and animals to colonize new territory before being cut off by the sea
Image: land bridge

3. the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group

4. the sector of an economy that produces manufactured goods

5. a very large, heavily populated city or urban complex
Image: Megalopolis

6. the sector of an economy making direct use of natural resources

7. Jesus is savior; origin - teachings of Christ (4BC to 30AD); 22% in US

8. large open area of country covered with grass, especially one used for grazing
Image: grasslands

9. an original economic system in which traditions, customs, and beliefs help shape the goods and the services the economy produces, as well as the rules and manner of their distribution

10. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle

11. an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control

12. an angle which ranges from 0° at the Equator to 90° (North or South) at the poles
Image: Latitude

13. the central or innermost portion of the Earth
Image: Core

14. most apparent in the path of an object moving longitudinally

15. -calendar
- solar and planetary cycle
-writing (Popol Vuh)
-800 glyphs representing sounds and words
-When: 2,000 BC to 900 AD
- Golden age: 200 AD to 900 AD
-Location: Southeast Mexico and Central America
-Languages: many
-Religion: polytheistic
-Relationship with Spanish: never met
Declined before they arrived

16. Quebec, New Brunswick, Ontario; French-speaking

17. the sum of the factors (as increase in numbers or excessive food consumption) within a population that reduce the ability of an environment to support the population and that therefore tend to result in migration and expansion of range or in extinction or decline of the population

18. the representation on a plane surface of any part of the surface of the earth or a celestial sphere
Image: Map Projection

19. OR, WA, ID, MN, WY; Northwest of Rockies

20. the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
Image: Longitude

21. a dry region of land on the side of a mountain range that is protected from the prevailing winds

22. a form of government with a monarch at the head; UK, Sweden, Spain, Swaziland

23. One god, love, justice; origin - Bronze Age in Canaan; 1.4% in US

24. a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, not connected to the open sea
Image: continental divide

25. caused by sudden movement of the ocean due to earthquakes, landslides on the sea floor, meteor impact, or volcanic eruptions